The Transactional Data Storage org builds data platforms which are at the core of Amazon’s consumer and digital businesses. Our OLTP storage platform, Sable, processes billions of transactions every day around the globe. We own multiple tier-1/mission-critical services fueling the growth of Amazon businesses to store customer orders, catalog and product information, shopping cart, Kindle device information, and hundreds of other business critical data-sets. The performance and availability of our platform is critical to the reliability of the Amazon brand. We run some of the largest fleets and the highest throughput services at Amazon. We partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage technologies built for cloud customers, and to offer technologies we invent through AWS channels to the broader market.

We are looking for a passionate engineer who understands distributed systems at scale and is interested to learn about database systems from database engine design to operating a tier-1 flagship product. This engineer will work with Principal Engineers and lead their team to build and operate large document storage, data transformations and data tiering capabilities. You will build regionally flexible, cost effective storage with advanced management capabilities. An engineer in this role will have strong sense of ownership, high bar for operational excellence and proven record of solving hard technical problems from design to delivery.